If you’re anything like us you’ll love displaying your child’s handiwork around the house. It’s a showcase of our love for them, while also adding a touch of colour to rooms.
While the fridge and cork boards and bedroom walls are the traditional spaces for such art and crafts, it is possible to get a little creative too and really encourage them to showcase their talent, as well as enjoying afternoons doing work together.
So, if the fridge is full, here are five other options for making your child’s crafty work be a part of your home decor…
Art Gallery Wall
While we may have a small amount of wall space for our child’s work, why not consider a full gallery wall?
Place it in a communal area of the house such as a hallway or kitchen and use it as a space to hang artwork all across it. It needs to be a prominent wall, and placing things at your child’s eye level can also be a good idea.
From there you can refresh it regularly, displaying their latest work, or even give them themes to create work around, a great idea during the changing of the seasons, key yearly events and, of course, Christmas.
Window Displays
Getting a little more creative, you could use your windows to display work. That could be displays on window sills or going all out on window art.
Activities such as fingerpainting on windows, washi tape art and window clings are great for letting your child get creative, while also being easy to wipe off.
If you’ve got bifold doors or patio doors, this can be especially good. Naturally, if you’ve just had them fitted you may want to be careful, but there are plenty of materials out there that can wash off easily and such art can really brighten up that area of the house.
Photo Display Wire
Photo display wires are easy to come by these days on the likes of Amazon and Etsy and they are brilliant for hanging artwork.
Great for a playroom or space where your child plays, you can hang work up using clothes pegs and rotate it as new pictures emerge.
Floating Shelves
Another option for your child’s room or in play areas of the house are floating shelves. This can aid in creating a more organised, gallery-style display and can be great for showcasing artwork as well as storing it.
You can add in other decorative objects, plants and toys to create a real focal point that can showcase arts and crafts much more creatively than a fridge.
Art Binder or Scrapbook
While this might sound like the opposite of displaying your child’s work, an art binder or scrapbook is a great option for keeping all of their work in one place and using it as a coffee table book kind of read.
Stop it on the coffee table or on a bookshelf and when friends or family are visiting they’ll feel notified enough to pick it up and enjoy your child’s work.
DIY Gallery Frames
Finally, and something that can be combined with the gallery wall idea above, consider encouraging your children to not only create art but also make the frames too.
There are many easy ideas for this around the internet and you can transform them into curators as well as artists!